Bury Food Partnership - Eat, Live, Love Food
Our Vision:
For Bury to be at the forefront of promoting and celebrating good food for all, through a knowledgeable, connected, supported and vibrant food culture.
The priorities of the Bury Food Strategy are that healthy and sustainable food in Bury is:
Members of the Bury Food Partnership are from across all areas of the local food sector and organisations that have an interest in creating a healthy, sustainable and equitable food system in Bury. Members include representatives from community groups, voluntary sector, private businesses, public health and the public.
The partnership is chaired by a member of the Bury Health and Wellbeing Board. This post will be by invitation of the partnership annually, based on appropriate council portfolios. The Public Health Practioner for Food & Health supports the chair and wider partnership in setting agendas and coordinating meetings.
Partnership meetings are held quarterly and report to the Health and Wellbeing Board.
Bury Food Partnership launched the Bury Food Strategy – Eat, Live, Love Food in January 2021, following its endorsement by the Health & Wellbeing Board in November 2020. It has since been integrated as part of the wider Bury Council 2030 Let’s Do It Strategy for the future of our borough. Alignment with complementary strategies has opened the way for food-related issues to be considered in many areas, such as Anti-Poverty, Climate Action, Cultural and Economic Growth. From the outset Bury Food Partnership has adopted whole systems thinking, and prides itself on being a positive space to connect, challenge and help shape the way Bury sources and provides good food for all.
Through the Partnership, Bury became a Sustainable Food Places (SFPs) network member in 2021, using SFP themes to collate partner activity across the food system. This process in and of itself acted as a constructive means to track and drive further activity. Bury were awarded the Sustainable Food Places Bronze award in 2022 and are delighted to share that we have now achieved the prestigious SFPs Silver award for Bury in 2024.
We are passionate about building on this momentum and driving this work forward by seeking out initiatives, policies and campaigns that complement, strengthen, and steer our food culture and food system for the better.
Please see our media articles showcasing some of the excellent work undertaken by the Bury Food Partnership Click to see the articles.
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